Just four days before the market closed and four days after the agreement reached by Real with Arsenal for his transfer, Mikel Merino Zazon He is still an official player for the Txuri Urdin squad. He is still registered as another in LaLiga and in the header of his Instagram account he continues to appear with a training sweatshirt – from a long time ago – of the Guipuzcoan team and proclaim himself as “Football player for @realsociedad and @ sefutbol” . La Real needs this operation to be fully executed in order to make one of the two signings it still plans to make this week, the last week of the market.
As MD Gipuzkoa learned, Merino He passed the medical examination without a problem on Friday and Saturday and now bureaucratic details are delaying the final signing of Arsenal’s documents.
La Real has sent all the necessary documentation to make the sale of the player effective for 33.5 million euros (one of which goes to Osasuna) with five of the variables. There are no disagreements regarding the amount, but this newspaper already reported on Thursday that, despite the fact that Real considers the agreement settled, the footballer’s entourage warns that there are still issues to be solve. And of those they are.
He trains alone
Logically, the footballer, who traveled to London on Friday after saying goodbye to his teammates, staff and Olabe in Zubieta, he is in a hurry to do everything as soon as possible so that he can wear the Arsenal shirt and become another under the command Mikel Arteta. That moment will come no sooner than this Tuesday, when there are just three days left before the summer window closes.
Meanwhile, MerinoOf course, he continued to exercise so as not to lose his physical condition, but he hasn’t been training together for a week. In Zubieta he didn’t do it as a precaution and in London he couldn’t because he wasn’t an Arsenal player yet, so he had to work alone. La Real has already played two games in this interim. And on Wednesday he will play the third.
At the moment, there are no pictures of Michael in London, the English capital where he went with his wife and family.
Source: La Verdad
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